Overview

What is SoundCloud? Is it just some random site that can be found on the internet with no value? SoundCloud is the world’s leading social sound platform for many new and existing artist and listeners trying to find some place in the music industry. SoundCloud was created in 2007 in Germany by a man named Eric Wahlforss. The service was created for people all over the world to upload and listen to many different artists and music around the globe.  

Significance

So why even bring up soundcloud? What makes this so different than anything else in the world that already exists? The reason to even mention soundcloud is the unique characteristics that it brings into our world. It is a free and open source service that brings different people around the world closer together through music. Its significant in many different ways for many different people around the globe.  In many cases the artist uploading their music is  allowing the world to hear their voice and words and can be special because they are proving a way on how people don’t need a record label to bring music to people ears worldwide. The listeners on the other hand provide a different hand to this, they are the ones that hear all this different type of music that comes from all these different places and different people that provides them with this interesting way of hearing to new music. This service has created new lives for people that have been discovered through simply uploading their music and being heard from a large audience. This creates an amazing power for musical artists and just regular people messing around to not only freely upload their creative work but to have that work go viral without any help from outside forces.